Here's an audience shot video of the band in Brighton on the Ruby tour of 2014. The footage is steady with some close ups. Apologies, I have no recollection where this came from or wo did it, but thanks!
DVD image: https://we.tl/t-ES5b9xBQDZ
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-aR2JOJZaAD
So after a brief interlude with the 'Forever Now' thread of posts its back to the bread and butter, This is an excellent gig from Germany recorded in March 2014. This is new to circulation for which Peter gets my most sincere thanks!
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-hyS1Kz2rva
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-pfLeYkojHo
What fun we had at this gig 11 years ago... the European leg of the Ruby tour. An account of our trip to Spain can be found here.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-jGxdqgZ2EtxFqhw8
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-YFV7U3U2vMvwdb6E
Here's one that I intended to post yesterday (on its birthday) but unfortunately work intervened. Hugh returned to this venue in this central German town to play the 'Totem & Taboo' almost on its entirity (9 of 11 tracks) along with a similar number of Stranglers' tracks (I wonder whether he s contractually obliged by promoters to include Stranglers' songs in the set these days?).
Anyway this one sounds great and Hugh enjoys a good report with the audience. An all round good gig I think.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-af91WpHmQE
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-jHhJMpyacy
Here is something perhaps a little obscure or maybe just unseen by many by virtue of the fact that it was briefly out there amidst so much other stuff in the modern TV channel ocean. I think that the relatively short lived Vintage TV was somehow related to the Sky group of companies/channels. This edition, hosted by sixties icon, Petula Clark, featured an eclectic line up including Hugh, The South and Ralph McTell (best known for his cover of the Anti-Nowhere League's 'Streets of London' :)).
This edited DVD features Hugh's involvement only, whith two live tracks separated by the shorttest of interviews with the host.
DVD image: https://we.tl/t-JxJIFsIbqr
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-7tXk5YirSC
The winter tour of 2014 saw Hugh and Hazel reunited. Here is Chatts record of an evening in Norwich. Cheers. This is the larger 24 bit version which will have to be converted if you intend to burn the recording to CD.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-1PEMXOSQi0
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-WNrmArEAJt
Another Parisian event is almost upon us. L'Olympia beckons again. One of the plushest venues I have been to in long years of gigging.
The occasion brings this offering to mind. A pro-shot full gig video (probably not the correct word to use in 2023) of the band on the European leg of the Ruby tour. And what a fantastic set. 'La Folie' (it seems that to hear this one France is the only option), 'Midnight Summer Dream' and 'Dave's finest moment, 'Peasant In The Big Shitty'.
DVD Disc image: https://we.tl/t-sqk1htQ5aj
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-Dop8idXYR7
WAV: https://we.tl/t-suvTfjLzqj
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-yXzSIhJMQB
OK hands up, I have exercised a degree of poetic licence here. 'Q' is a difficult one, I have nothing by Queen and Quiet Riot or the Quire Boys are not my thing at all. And so I give you Quo. Now before you recoil in horror, pause for one second, this is not the normal denim and leather fodder that the band had been churning out for decades, for this is an acoustic set..... quite a few old bands have tried it I understand! With this different take on that familiar sound it is clear that much of the material is pretty good and well written..... oh and 'Pictures of Matchstick' is a classic of the psychadelic era!
I saw Status Quo once, well that said I stood and watched them for 15 minutes at Reading Festival in 1987, just to be able to say that I had seen them. We returned to the test for more alcohol and laughed as they were still cranking out the hits 2 hours later.
It's funny, but they have the reputation that all their songs sound the same, but years ago at a local pub quiz there was an intros round with you guessed it, 20 Quo intros. We scored 20/20 and all the titles were indeed different.
FLAC: https://we.tl/t-xpZ5Ypz2Dq
Artwork: https://we.tl/t-Vnc5TlSZnq
